As stated on the syllabus, the readings are due each Monday as we start the discussion of the theorists. You are responsible for reading all of the assigned readings; however, you are only required to provide one critique weekly. Remember, late work is not accepted.

Auguste Comte:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/comte-positivism.html
From Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism (London: Routledge and Sons, 1907), pp. 1-7

http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Comte/COMTE.HTML
From Auguste Comte, The Positive Philosophy (translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau), Vol. 2 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1854), 68-74 and 95-1 10).

Spencer:
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/spencer/manvssta
The Man versus the State by Herbert Spencer, 1884.

http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/cooley/Cooley_1920.html
Citation: Charles Horton Cooley. "Reflections upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer," American Journal of Sociology 26 (1920): 129-145.

Durkheim:
http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Durkheim/DIVLABOR.HTML
From Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society, (Translated by George Simpson). by New York: The Free Press, 1947.

http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Durkheim/SOCFACT.HTML
From Emile Durkheim, The Rules of the Sociological Method, (Ed. by Steven Lukes; trans. by W.D. Halls). New York: Free Press, 1982, pp. 50-59.

Parsons:
http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/bib/info/parsntalc55famisoci.html
Quotes from Family, Socialization and Interaction process. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press. 1955 (with Robert Bales)

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/parsons.htm
Structure of Social Action. MacGraw Hill 1937.

Merton:
http://www.crimetheory.com/Merton/
Social Structure and Anomie." American Sociological Review 3 (Oct. 1938): 672-82. An expanded version appears in Social Theory and Social Structure. Courtesy of Crimetheory.com

http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/crime/mert_str.htm
Sociology at Hewlett

Marx:
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
Read  I -- Bourgeois and Proletarians [1] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party 1848.

Weber:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/weber/society/socio_relig/socio_relig_frame.html
Read (A.1) - (A.1.g).

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm
On the Ideal Type From Coser, 1977:223-224.

Mills:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Book_Excerpts/HigherCircles_PE.html
ãThe Higher Circles.ä The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills. Oxford Press, 1956.

http://www.tamucc.edu/~whatley/PADM5302/theo10c.htm
Article Review by Carl A. Sherrouse of The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills.

Collins:
http://wizard.ucr.edu/~bkaplan/soc/lib/collconf.html
ãThe Basics of Conflict Theoryä  From Randall Collins, Conflict Sociology. New York: Academic Press, 1974, pp.56-61.

Mead:
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/mead/pubs2/mindself/Mead_1934_22.html
George Herbert Mead. "The 'I' and the "me"", Section 22 in Mind Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Edited by Charles W. Morris). Chicago: University of Chicago (1934): 173-178.

http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Mead/MINDSELF.HTML
From George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934.

Schutz:
http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/schutz.html
Selected Passages from On Phenomenology and Social Relations .

Berger (and Thomas Luckmann):
http://www.louisville.edu/~jabusc01/reality.htm
From Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise its the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1966), pp. 51-55, 59-61.

Homans:
http://wizard.ucr.edu/~bkaplan/soc/lib/homnprop.html
George C. Homans, Elementary Forms of Social Behavior, (2nd Ed.), New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

http://hss.fullerton.edu/sociology/castellano.htm
Homans, George C. Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974.  Smelser, Neil. Fundamental Social Processes. New York: John Wiley, 1967.

Blau:
http://wizard.ucr.edu/~bkaplan/soc/lib/blauexch.html
From Peter Blau, Exchange and Power in Social Life. New York: Wiley, 1964, pp. 88-97.

Daly:
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/daly1.html
The Church and The Second Sex Mary Daly's rebuttal of Simone deBueavoir's The Second Sex.

Patricia Hill Collins:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/252.html
From Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
Politics of Empowerment. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990, pp. 221-238.

Feminist Reading:
http://128.220.50.88/demo/ken/6.1tong.html
Rosemarie Tong, Ph.D.,  author of the forthcoming book, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. ãFeminist Bioethics: Toward Developing a "Feminist" Answer to the Surrogate Motherhood Question.ä